Staff Software Engineer, Devices

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

The Devices Team is responsible for the creation and lifecycle of IoT devices enrolled in EnergyHub programs used to balance the power grid and contribute to the overall EnergyHub mission of creating a carbon free distributed energy future. Our newly formed core team will play a critical role in ensuring the scalability and flexibility of our future by abstracting partner and client specific complexities to enable other internal teams to build new features and functionality quickly.

This is an opportunity to join a highly energized team of engineers eager to define and develop key concepts, solve complex challenges with real-world constraints and have a positive impact on our climate future. We will be focusing on migrating from a monolithic to a microservices architecture and delivering well defined contracts to the broader organization. The primary focus is to integrate any Distributed Energy Resource (DER) type into our platform in a way that enables multiple use cases without compromising quality and scalability.

As a staff engineer, you would support our mission by defining the technical vision and driving major initiatives, providing expertise and guidance from past industry experience, and autonomously developing high-quality solutions that balance multiple constraints while ensuring long-term flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform features that solve for multiple constraints and use cases.
• Drive the transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based approach, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and improved system resilience.
• Lead technical initiatives and provide guidance on data modeling, contract definition, and API development.
• Develop back end solutions, ensuring well-structured, high-quality code with automated testing.
• Lead the migration from a document-based database to a relational database, focusing on data modeling, schema design, and optimizing for performance and flexibility.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, internal engineering teams, and stakeholders to drive high-impact projects.
• Work within real-world constraints to develop creative solutions that maintain platform flexibility and scalability.
• Contribute to best practices for CI/CD, data modeling, and iterative development (e.g., PoCs, rapid prototyping, milestone-based execution).
• Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a strong technical culture of respect, open communication, and collaboration.

Key Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with prior staff-level experience.